DVD And Blu-Ray Extras: Where Did They Go?
I was first introduced to DVDs by my high school girlfriend. The relationship ended up not working out, mainly because as I was still adjusting to a diagnosis of Aspergers’ Syndrome, I was having difficulty figuring out how relationships are supposed to go. One thing I can thank her for, though, is my love of DVDs, and more importantly, DVD extras. I had read about the extras DVDs contained in several online articles, but I wouldn’t really know until the lead-up to Christmas of 2000, when I got my first DVD player. One of the very first DVDs I can recall watching, if not the first altogether, was 1988’s Earth Girls Are Easy, which had some amazing extras. Looking at that trailer, you might think “I wonder what went into it”. The DVD version of this answered that question. You had making-of footage, a make-up test for Jeff Goldblum’s character Mac, deleted scenes and sing-alongs to the movie’s songs, in addition to the movie’s theatrical trailer. That movie spoiled me,